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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has re-examined his most controversial campaign promises, calling for more flexible gun laws, calling for a high-ranking judge to fight corruption at home. joining his government and promising to cut government ads. "
A woman takes a t-shirt with the image of Brazil's newly elected president, Jair Bolsonaro, in front of the Bolsonaro condominium in the Barra da Tijuca district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 29, 2018. REUTERS / Pilar Olivares
In interviews with television channels and social networks, Bolsonaro, a 63-year-old former army captain who garnered 55 per cent of the vote and will be sworn in on 1 January, made clear know that he would not waste time putting his voice. conservative agenda.
Bolsonaro, who operated on a platform of law enforcement, said he hoped that Sergio Moro, the judge who oversaw the spateful corruption trials of the "Car Wash" Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, convicted of corruption, joins his government as judge-minister.
Apart from that, he said that he would appoint him to the Supreme Court. The next vacant position on the court is scheduled for 2020.
Moro did not respond to requests for comment.
But Ascancio Seleme, editor of the newspaper O Globo, wrote in a blog Tuesday on the publication's website that Moro should not accept the offer to become Minister of Justice. He has too much work to do on trials pending corruption, Seleme wrote.
Seleme added that it would also strengthen the accusations of the Workers Party (PT), whose candidate Fernando Haddad was beaten by Bolsonaro in Sunday's vote, that Moro organized a vendetta against the PT and worked to preserve it from power. .
The PT accuses Moro of finding da Silva, its founder, guilty of corruption to prevent him from running for president.
The verdict of guilty was upheld on appeal and the Brazilian Supreme Court rejected numerous requests for the release of the former president, known as Lula.
The Globo newspaper, in a separate article citing unnamed sources close to the judge, reported Tuesday that Moro was reviewing Bolsonaro's offer, saying it might reassure citizens worried that the elected president would not rule democratically.
DISPLAY OF THE MEDIA
On the evening of Monday, Bolsonaro announced in an interview with Globo TV that it would reduce government advertising money for any "misleading" media.
During his election campaign, the right wing imitated US President Donald Trump's strategy of aggressively dealing with the media. He was particularly interested in Globo TV, especially the largest newspaper in Brazil, the Folha de S.Paulo.
"I am totally in favor of freedom of the press," Bolsonaro told Globo TV. "But if it only depends on me, to press this shameless lie will not have any government support."
Bolsonaro was referring to the hundreds of millions of reais that the Brazilian government spends each year on advertising in local media, mainly to promote state-owned enterprises.
The UOL news portal, owned by Grupo Folha, which also controls the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, used Brazil's Freedom of Information Act as the basis of a 2015 article that showed that Globo had received $ 565 million in federal government spending in 2014. Folha earned $ 14.6 million this year.
The federal government's communications secretariat, which records the numbers, did not immediately respond to a request regarding the amount of government spending on media advertising since 2014.
Neither Grupo Globo nor Grupo Folha responded to requests for comment.
Report by Brad Brooks, edited by Larry King
